Paris in the Arab winter: Links 7 for Jan 7 – 2015

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1. Many large media sites opted for cowardice in the face of intimidation:

“Under [ N Y ] Times standards, we do not normally publish images or other material deliberately intended to offend religious sensibilities. After careful consideration, Times editors decided that describing the cartoons in question would give readers sufficient information to understand today’s story.”

[…]The choices news organizations face in publishing the cartoons recall the controversy over a Danish newspaper’s publishing of Muhammad cartoons in 2005 and 2006. The cartoons inspired protests and boycotts around the world, as well as death threats against the newspaper and cartoonists. Some outlets published the cartoons in solidarity with the newspaper, while others decided to censor them: CNN pixelated the images that it showed of the cartoon.

… photos of the cartoons held by demonstrators during protesters are “OK, if shot wide.”

2. Murdered Charlie Hebdo editor interview from 2012:

3. Youngest suspect in Charlie Hebdo shooting turns himself in to Police

4. Laurent: ‘We can expect more of what happened today…

5. Mark Steyn on Meghan Kelly discussing this attack

The Right Scoop on this issue

Thank you Wrath of Khan, M., ML., TL., DP111.,Don C., and many more. I believe someone is on the Marine Le Pen statement. I am looking forward to hearing that. Hopefully tonight. More to come soon.

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10 Replies to “Paris in the Arab winter: Links 7 for Jan 7 – 2015”

  1. Some truth, some equivocation and of course some potentially deadly expectations…

    Paris attack highlights Europe’s struggle with Islamism (BBC, Jan 7, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30717728

    “In the heart of Europe in 2015, the killing of cartoonists and journalists for allegedly insulting God still comes as a shock, despite the rising number of such attacks in recent years. In rational, post-Enlightenment Europe, religion has long since been relegated to a safe space, with Judaism and Christianity the safe targets of satire in secular western societies.

    Not so Islam. The battle within Islam itself between Sunni and Shia, so evident in the wars of the Middle East, and the fight between extremist interpretations of Islam such as those of Islamic State and Muslims who wish to practice their religion in peace, is now being played out on the streets of Europe with potentially devastating consequences for social cohesion.

    These latest shootings may be the work of “lone wolves” but their consequences will ripple across Europe and provoke much soul-searching about the failure of integration over the past decades. Immigrant communities are already being viewed with increasing suspicion in both France and Germany, with their significant Muslim populations, and even in the UK.

    France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, some five million or 7.5% of the population, compared with Germany’s four million or 5% of the population, and the UK’s three million, also 5% of the population. In all three, mainstream political parties are being forced to confront popular discontent over levels of immigration and the apparent desire of some younger, often disaffected children or grandchildren of immigrant families not to conform to western, liberal lifestyles – including traditions of religious tolerance and free speech….”

  2. Someone turning the tables on the Islamic State lunatics? Sounds interesting if true. Well, if they seize someones cigarettes and similar guilty pleasure related products, one could expect some repercussions down the line.

    Islamic State crisis: Religious police ‘kidnapped’ in Syria (BBC, Jan 7, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30721021

    “Reports from Syria say that some members of the religious police force set up by the militant group Islamic State (IS) have been kidnapped. Activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they had been ambushed and abducted by unknown gunmen in the eastern city of Mayadin. The force patrols areas held by IS and enforces its version of Islamic law.

    It comes a day after reports that the force’s deputy leader in the same area had been killed by unknown assailants. The Observatory, which is based in the UK, said it was unclear how many members of the police – known as Hisbah – had been kidnapped.

    “There is an escalation in the operations against the Hisbah because they are arresting people and insulting their dignity for reasons like smoking,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP news agency. The IS police force has confiscated and burned tobacco products and punished those caught smoking.

    According to reports, the force’s deputy commander in the area had been captured, tortured and beheaded. His severed head was reportedly found with a cigarette in its mouth and close by was a note with a mocking reference to the fact that smoking is a sin in the eyes of the religious police.

    IS has seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq, declaring a “caliphate” in the areas in controls.”

  3. Somalia’s al-Shabab kills ‘CIA and Ethiopian spies’ (BBC, Jan 7, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30715842

    “Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab has killed by firing squad four men accused of spying for the CIA and other intelligence agencies. The men, who included two government soldiers, were shot in front of a large crowd in the southern town of Bardhere, witnesses said. A court run by al-Shabab had earlier convicted them of spying for the CIA, Ethiopia and the Somali government. US air strikes have killed two senior al-Shabab commanders in recent months…”

  5. The question is what all the people that gathered this evening want? Shall they deport 10% of their population? What is it they think will happen if they continue on the course they have carved?
    Or, after a few days, will they go back to sleep until the next slaughter?
    Believe me, the U.S. gov’t is just as complicit in attempting to sanitize this. Did you see Mr. Obama’s remarks? He could have been phoning it in.

  8. Both Steyn and Laurent told us the facts about what has happened and Laurent is basically saying that we are in a war with Islam out to conquer the world and that we have to recognize this and to fight this as a war of survival.